From the information noted in this research, it is clear that the moon’s long-term declination cycles have a strong influence on the earth’s oceans and atmosphere.
It is important to realize that the ocean is a very great expanse of liquid, and the gravitational action of the moon and sun is so strong that it causes the oceans to bulge along the lunar gravitational envelope as depicted in Figure 29 at the bottom of this page. The maximum peak of the tidal dome is produced in the vicinity of the sub-lunar point with an almost identical tidal dome on the opposite side of the earth.
As the earth makes a full revolution on a daily basis, the dome intensifies under the sub-lunar point, and then relaxes after the sub-lunar point passes. This is what causes the high and low tides in the oceans twice daily, and tides within the atmosphere of the earth on a daily and monthly scale. This acts much like a giant plunger pulling and releasing, thus causing a dome and a slosh to occur in the oceans.
The magnitude of the dome (without weather related winds) is directly determined by the magnitude of the cyclical gravitational forces displayed on the oceans, and as shown within this research, these tide-forcing gravitational cycles have a direct teleconnection to the lunar declination cycles. It was also noted that these gravitational forces have a similar effect on the atmosphere, with daily and yearly atmospheric tides directly connected to the gravitational declination cycle of the moon.
Figure 29: A depiction of the moon’s gravitational envelope. (click image to enlarge)
It was shown earlier in this section that the very important subtropical high pressure belt circling the earth is located near 30 degrees north latitude, and near 30 degrees south latitude. It was also shown that the gravitational declination cycles effecting the subtropical belt varies between the equator to 28 degrees above the equator, with these cycles causing gravitational north and south tugging on the earth’s atmosphere and oceans. It was demonstrated in Chapter 4 that these PFM cycles cause short-term and long-term latitudinal displacements in these regional oceanic anticyclones (high pressure centers), and thus the primary cause for global warming and cooling cycles.
It was noted in Chapter 5 that the current widely accepted hypotheses that man-made fossil fuel burning is the major cause of global warming is incorrect. It was shown that atmospheric temperatures and industrial carbon dioxide emission levels rose and fell at differing times from 1900 to 2008, with a 40-year period in which temperatures actually fell or remained constant as industrial emissions rose. Meanwhile, the overall levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide rose at a steadier pace from the onset of global warming right up to the year 2008. This steady rise conforms to past natural global warming cycles, and demonstrates that temperatures rise over Antarctica first, followed by a like increase in carbon dioxide.
It is important to understand that temperatures rise first in these natural cycles, and carbon dioxide is a following gas responding to this natural temperature cycle. It was noted earlier that global warming cycles follow the PFM cyclical harmonics, with very high correlations to all the PFM cycles.
They include the approximate 72-year Master Cycle and its 9-year sub-cycles, the 925-year Master Cycle and its 231-year sub-cycles, the PFM approximate 116,000-year Master Cycle and its 925-year sub-cycles, and finally to the approximate 460,000-year PFM Master Cycle and its associated 116,000-year sub-cycles.